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captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodff: president obama pushedor a hike in the minimum wage as he toured a north carolina factory, one part of the second term agenda he laid out last night in his state of the union address. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we assess the merits of the president's plan to increase prosperity for working class americans. >> woodruff: then, we get the latest on the fiery end to the manhunt for a former los angeles police officer and the investigation into homicides he's accused of committing. >> brown: we take a second look at a story about programs in chicago targeting high-risk, low-income students long before they get to kindergarten. >> i don't think we understood how much of a barrier deep, deep poverty is in terms of engaging families and creating opportunities for children. >> woodruff: and margaret warner examines the calls for action on immigration reform, coming from both sides of capitol hill. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major fundin
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> woodff: president obama pushedor a hike in the minimum wage as he toured a north carolina factory, one part of the second term agenda he laid out last night in his state of the union address. good evening, i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we assess the merits of the president's plan to increase prosperity for working class americans. >> woodruff: then, we get the...
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thank you. >> suarez: with just a week left before automatic spending cuts are set to begin, the obama administration stepped up pressure on republicans in congress today. the latest warnings came over the potential impact that furloughs would have on air trav, starng in apl. transportation secretary ray lahood said travelers could face new delays of 90 minutes at major airports in chicago, new york and san francisco. more than 100 air control towers at smaller airports could be closed, lahood said. airlines likely would cancel flights. and congress, he said, would hear of the fallout. >> it's not only the impact on the passengers, it's the impact that it has on airports, control towers, people who work there, airports. and their ones are going to start ringing. why does this have to happen? nobody likes a delay. nobody likes waiting in line. none of us do. if we can't get our hamburger within five minutes, if we can't get on the plane whin 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens. they start calling their member of congress. >> suarez: more now on these latest war
thank you. >> suarez: with just a week left before automatic spending cuts are set to begin, the obama administration stepped up pressure on republicans in congress today. the latest warnings came over the potential impact that furloughs would have on air trav, starng in apl. transportation secretary ray lahood said travelers could face new delays of 90 minutes at major airports in chicago, new york and san francisco. more than 100 air control towers at smaller airports could be closed,...
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. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner looks at today's summit between president obama and japanese prime minister abe, where japan's tensions with china were very much in the forefront. >> suarez: our week long focus on guns, "after newtown" wraps up tonight with a report from chicago on the public health crisis in the city in the wake of rising gun violence. >> the people who come in after having been shot are some of the highest risk folks. these are people who have been shot, who may have been shot before, and really without some intervention, without some life- changing moment, the trajectory's either going to be jail or death. >> woodruff: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> suarez: and, as a magistrate grants oscar pistorius bail, we talk to charlayne hunter gault about how his arrest has focused attention on the unusually high rate of violence against women in south africa. >> domestic violence is shot through the entire society from the highest of the highed in socioeconomic terms to the lowest of the low. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour
. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner looks at today's summit between president obama and japanese prime minister abe, where japan's tensions with china were very much in the forefront. >> suarez: our week long focus on guns, "after newtown" wraps up tonight with a report from chicago on the public health crisis in the city in the wake of rising gun violence. >> the people who come in after having been shot are some of the highest risk folks. these are people who have...
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but obama has publicly, at least, advanced a hawkish position. so she seems to be walking in tandem with him there. so you know it isn't really clear if she had been left to her own devices or if obama had played richard nixon and made her his ssinger, wheherhe wou have taken positions very different from his. as it is, because she was the implementer she tried to carve out some areas of her own, networking, public diplomacy, and working on women's issues. but even in those areas, including women's issues, i'm not sure how lasting the impact is going to be. for example, if we pull completely out of afghanistan all the games that women have made, maybe lost. >> susan glasser, quick final thoughts. >> well, i guess we're all going to be talking about hilry cnton for some time to come. we are have four years to wait and speculate to see whether she runs for president or not. >> suarez: susan glaser, trudy rubin, thank you both. >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and brooks-- syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist d
but obama has publicly, at least, advanced a hawkish position. so she seems to be walking in tandem with him there. so you know it isn't really clear if she had been left to her own devices or if obama had played richard nixon and made her his ssinger, wheherhe wou have taken positions very different from his. as it is, because she was the implementer she tried to carve out some areas of her own, networking, public diplomacy, and working on women's issues. but even in those areas, including...
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>> you know, the obama administration put an emphasis on alliances. and there's no question, she set out. she repaired the relationship with europeans. she brought abt closer relationships with southeast asian countries in an effort to pivot towards asia and sort of create a buffer against china. but if you look at how that translates into policy, i think there is a bigger problem. she was very good going out to a country, soothing ruffled feathers, for example, with officials in afghanistan and pakistan. and speaking out to the public. but what kind of a stin impact did it have. for example in pakistan where i was there when she deflected criticism, angry shouts from students and she had them eating out of her hands. but in pakistan the government is still providing shelter for the taliban. and there's still no real solid ra approachment between us and then. so it is very hard to see that her soothing, her repairing of applianc appliance-- alliances necessarily resulted concrte polic achievements. >> suarez: susan, wasn't it a pretty complicated mess
>> you know, the obama administration put an emphasis on alliances. and there's no question, she set out. she repaired the relationship with europeans. she brought abt closer relationships with southeast asian countries in an effort to pivot towards asia and sort of create a buffer against china. but if you look at how that translates into policy, i think there is a bigger problem. she was very good going out to a country, soothing ruffled feathers, for example, with officials in...
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i want to ask you about obama care. you just raised it. what effect do you see it having on the health care system after all your reporting? >> well, there are a lot of good aspects of it. it curbs some of the billing collection practices. it obviously puts an umbrella over many more people who will have insurance but it really sort of nips away at the edges of the problem. the problem is the price tag that everybody is able to charge because they're basically able to gouge people because the buyers don't have any leverage. obama care really does nothing to attack that. >> woodruff: well, we are going to leave it there, steven brill. the article is in this week's "time" magazine. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. the cuban government says gross illegally distributed communications equipment on the island while on a u.s.-funded democracy building program. gross has claimed innocence. i'm joined now by senator patrick leahy. senator, welcome. how is alan gross? you got a chance to see him. >> he's lost an enormous amount of weigh
i want to ask you about obama care. you just raised it. what effect do you see it having on the health care system after all your reporting? >> well, there are a lot of good aspects of it. it curbs some of the billing collection practices. it obviously puts an umbrella over many more people who will have insurance but it really sort of nips away at the edges of the problem. the problem is the price tag that everybody is able to charge because they're basically able to gouge people because...
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president obama won reelection. so now it's clearly the law of the land and for all of us now we've got to try to make sure it gets implemented effectively state after state. i think that will happen and it certainly will happen in the timely manner starting january 2014. >> woodruff: and you're saying what's happened today and these other states, especially those with republican governors which were not expected potentially to go along with medicaid expansion, this will make a difference? >> i think it's going to make a huge difference i think the dominos are falling. i think you'll see many republican governors doing it. 100% paid by the federal government and the states are saving money in terms of their cause for uncompensated care, this is a good deal. >> woodruff:e i know we'll come back to this in the future. ron pollock in washington, paul howard in new york, we thank you both. >> thank you. >> suarez: we return to the conflict in syria where more than 50 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in
president obama won reelection. so now it's clearly the law of the land and for all of us now we've got to try to make sure it gets implemented effectively state after state. i think that will happen and it certainly will happen in the timely manner starting january 2014. >> woodruff: and you're saying what's happened today and these other states, especially those with republican governors which were not expected potentially to go along with medicaid expansion, this will make a...
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obama and mr. lu is getting something done will require coming to agreement with congress, and there the philosophical divide is so wide, that makes getting something done very challenging. >> ifill: part of the divide is health care. this is the time when the rubber hits the road in terms of implementation. this is a cabinet member who is not leaving. >> i tnk oe of the reasons she has job stability and we see with some of the the appointments getting confirmed. there has not been a head of the-- one of the subcabinet appointments in him h.s., the head of the center for medicare and medicaid services since 2006, in the middle of bush's bs second term because it is so difficult to get that through the senate. it would be hard to imagine trying to replace kathleen sebieluous, which is probably a good ting, because shehas so much to do this year, getting the affordable care act up and running, most of it in times for january 1, 2014, plus all of these budget debates that are going on that will inevit
obama and mr. lu is getting something done will require coming to agreement with congress, and there the philosophical divide is so wide, that makes getting something done very challenging. >> ifill: part of the divide is health care. this is the time when the rubber hits the road in terms of implementation. this is a cabinet member who is not leaving. >> i tnk oe of the reasons she has job stability and we see with some of the the appointments getting confirmed. there has not been...
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obama grew up not far from where he spoke. and mrs. obama is a true south cider. she calls herself that. he talked about that at the school. and you know, in chicago when you say you are a south cider, that is something you say with an enormous amount of pride. so obama by identifying with the neighborhood of which he adopt odd when he came to the city twice, first as a community organizer, maybe by chance and then by choice after harvard law school, he knew this was his home and his speech reflected that. now-- . >> warner: and how did coming to chicago, how did today's event have the example of hadiya pendleton, how does 245 fit into his strategy for pushing for changes in the gun laws? >> i think it works because if you-- i think there is a belief among the obama team that if you make it personal, you could go over the heads of the members of congress. you could try to dilute the second amendment argument to say no, this isn't about anyone trying to take your rights away. it is about saying that if you sign a piece of paper saying that you are buying a gun, you
obama grew up not far from where he spoke. and mrs. obama is a true south cider. she calls herself that. he talked about that at the school. and you know, in chicago when you say you are a south cider, that is something you say with an enormous amount of pride. so obama by identifying with the neighborhood of which he adopt odd when he came to the city twice, first as a community organizer, maybe by chance and then by choice after harvard law school, he knew this was his home and his speech...
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president obama announced today that marine general john allen will end his military career. allen's nomination for the nato post was put on hold last fall, amid questions about e-mail exchanges with a woman in florida. the general was cleared of all wrongdoing, but he said today he needs to focus on his wife's health problems. the president stepped up his attack on republicans today in the face of a looming deficit deadline. the so-called "sequester," $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, is set to take effect less than two weeks from now, on march 1. the president charged republicans' unwillingness to raise taxes is preventing a deal, and, he said, hundreds of thousands of public employees could be out of work, if the sequester takes place. >> this is not an expression: people will lose their jobs. the unemployment rate might tick up again. that's why democrats, business leaders and economists, they've already said that these cuts-- known here in washington as sequestration-- are a bad idea. they're not good for our economy they're not how we should run our government. >>
president obama announced today that marine general john allen will end his military career. allen's nomination for the nato post was put on hold last fall, amid questions about e-mail exchanges with a woman in florida. the general was cleared of all wrongdoing, but he said today he needs to focus on his wife's health problems. the president stepped up his attack on republicans today in the face of a looming deficit deadline. the so-called "sequester," $85 billion in automatic...
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president obama says the cuts won't take effect right away. it will take weeks, perhaps months before we know what the true impact will be be. >> the next crisis after this one is the debt ceiling. so we go from one crisis to the next. it seems like this is how we do things, unfortunately, in this country right now. david jackson with u.s.a. today. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> meantime, the federal judge is hear arguments on how much british petroleum will have to pay for the worst oil spill in u.s. history. 11 workers were killed. millions of gallons of oil spilled after a rig explosion in the gulf in 2010. bp says the environment tall disaster cost the company more than $24 billion. convince the court the company is liable for more than that. >>> another big snowstorm pounding the nation's midsection. kansas, oklahoma, parts of texas as well. blizzard-like conditions led schools to cancel classes. wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour, built large snow drifts. something they don't see too often. the intertait was shut down. no flights
president obama says the cuts won't take effect right away. it will take weeks, perhaps months before we know what the true impact will be be. >> the next crisis after this one is the debt ceiling. so we go from one crisis to the next. it seems like this is how we do things, unfortunately, in this country right now. david jackson with u.s.a. today. thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> meantime, the federal judge is hear arguments on how much british petroleum will have to...
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lisa, in recent days senior members of the obama administration have laid out an exacting detail all the terrible consequences that the sequester goes through while republicans, in many cases, have said it might not be that bad. from your reporting, can you tell who's working closer to the truth? >> well, it is hard to tell you about this is really in part a political game because it really does look like these 85 billion dollars in spending cuts will begin to take effect next fridayment it does not look as if congress, either side in congress has a real interest in resolving this issue. and the obama administration has over the past, i'm going to say, about two weeks has stepped up the pressure on republicans to say to the public, okay, dire consequences will result if these cuts take effect. that's in part because the agencies have to make the cuts across-the-board and they can't really make them without furloughs. now air traffic is just one area of the government that would-- that the white house says would be impacted. you've got national parks that are going to delay openings b
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. >> woodruff: fresh from addressing the nation, president obama opened a new campaign today to sell his second-term economic plan. in turn, republicans dismissed most of his ideas as the failed policies of the past. the president flew south today, going directly to voters with his ideas for creating jobs and boosting the middle class. the post state of the union tour began in asheville, north carolina, at a plant that makes heavy-duty engines. he picked up where he had left off with his message the night before. >> our job as americans is to restore that basic bargain that says if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead. ( applause ) you can get ahead. doesn't matter what you look like, doesn't matter where you come from. our middle class, when it's growing, when it's thriving, when there are ladders of opportunity for people to do a little bit better each year and make sure that their kids are doing even better than them, that's the american dream. that's what we gotta fight for. that has to be the north star that guides everything we do. >
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the obama administration is launching a new strategy to fight cyber theft. the plan announced today includes a diplomatic effort to discourage intellectual property theft abroad. it also calls for better coordination to help u.s. companies protect themselves. at a washington briefing, attorney general eric holder said the damage done by economic espionage is growing. >> the stakes have never really been higher. in some industries, a single trade secret can be worth millions or even billions of dollars. trade secret theft can require companies to lay off employees, close factories, to lose sales and profits, to experience a decline in competitive position and advantage or even to go out of business. >> sreenivasan: the announcement came on the heels of a report by a virginia cyber-security firm. the findings directly accused the chinese military of hacking more than 140 companies in the u.s. and elsewhere. japanese investigators have found that a lithium ion battery in a boeing 787 dreamliner was wired incorrectly. that word came today from japan's transport
the obama administration is launching a new strategy to fight cyber theft. the plan announced today includes a diplomatic effort to discourage intellectual property theft abroad. it also calls for better coordination to help u.s. companies protect themselves. at a washington briefing, attorney general eric holder said the damage done by economic espionage is growing. >> the stakes have never really been higher. in some industries, a single trade secret can be worth millions or even...